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'Don't chop me down.' 100-year-old gingko trees may get axe for Tokyo redevelopment project (apnews.com)

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A few hundred people have turned out to protect historic century-old ginkgo trees that are likely to be chopped down under a controversial redevelopment for a beloved Tokyo park district.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Same happened in my town. Beautiful Linden trees (I think Basswood in America). There came protest, so they hired a company to check on the trees and would you know it. ALL trees had something wrong with them and would have died in 20 years anyway. They were all cut down.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Time for some spikes!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Linden trees are regionally known as linden trees in the US. We have a Lindenwood College in Missouri.